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Daily journal

A daily journal your AI keeps with you. Answer four short questions, or just tell it about your day, and it writes the entry, newest day first.

For people who want to keep a journal but stall at the empty page.

Use template

Free. Use template opens Amber Notes and adds the note. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.

30 September 2026

Daily journal

A few lines a day. Tell your AI about your day, or let it ask the questions below, and the entry lands here, newest day first.

Questions

  1. What happened today?
  2. What took energy, and what gave it back?
  3. What do I want to remember?
  4. What's one thing for tomorrow?

Entries

Friday 2 October

  • Today: quiet day; finished the report and left at five.
  • Energy: low after lunch, better after coffee with Jonas.
  • Remember: the bakery on the corner opens at seven.
  • Tomorrow: call Mum.

Thursday 1 October

  • Today: presented the budget; it went better than the rehearsal.
  • Energy: the 9 am meeting took it, the walk at lunch gave it back.
  • Remember: Ana said the second slide was the clearest.
  • Tomorrow: reply to the landlord before noon.

The note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

What the prompt does

Your AI creates a note called “Daily journal” in your Journal folder, or finds the one you already have, and learns how to keep it. A few lines a day. Tell your AI about your day, or let it ask the questions below, and the entry lands here, newest day first.

Paste it once into a chat in ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes turned on, or into Claude Code.

Then just talk to it

  • I want to journal.
  • Today was long: the move is done, the boxes aren't, and I finally slept.
  • What's been on my mind this week?
Show the full prompt

First, look for a note called "Daily journal" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Journal", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Daily journal". When I say I want to journal, ask me the questions under "Questions" one at a time, and skip any I pass on. If I tell you about my day in one go instead, write the entry from that without asking. Add the day at the start of "Entries" with append_to_note (at_start): a "###" heading with the weekday and date, then my answers as short lines in my own words, each starting with a bold label (Today, Energy, Remember, Tomorrow). Don't add advice unless I ask for it. When I ask what's been on my mind lately, read the note with read_note and answer from my entries.

```markdown
Daily journal

A few lines a day. Tell your AI about your day, or let it ask the questions below, and the entry lands here, newest day first.

## Questions
1. What happened today?
2. What took energy, and what gave it back?
3. What do I want to remember?
4. What's one thing for tomorrow?

## Entries
```

The note you start with

This is what the prompt creates in Amber Notes: an ordinary note with the headings ready. Your AI fills it in from there, and you can still edit every line yourself.

Today

Daily journal

A few lines a day. Tell your AI about your day, or let it ask the questions below, and the entry lands here, newest day first.

Questions

  1. What happened today?
  2. What took energy, and what gave it back?
  3. What do I want to remember?
  4. What's one thing for tomorrow?

Entries

How to set it up

  1. Add the template to Amber NotesChoose Use template. Amber Notes opens and adds the "Daily journal" note to the folder you pick.
  2. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can fill in the note.
  3. Give your AI the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. Then tell it what happened, in your own words.

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